Jean-Baptiste Bessieres

Jean-Baptiste Bessieres (6 August 1768-1 May 1813) was a Marshal of France. He served in the First French Republic's Egyptian Campaign of the Second Coalition. He died at Poserna-Rippach, killed by a cannonball.

Biography
Bessieres was from Prayssac, from southern France, and served in the war with Spain under the Constitutional Guard of Louis XVI of France. In 1796 he served in the First Coalition war in the Italian Campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte and he fought in the Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1800. He fought in the Peninsular War from 1808 and served in the Battle of Wagram in 1809 and fought in the Russian campaign.

In the 1813 Campaign against the Sixth Coalition, he was commander of Napoleon's cavalry. Bessieres was killed by a cannonball near Weissenfels, and King Louis XVIII of France made his eldest son a peer.